>If any brand of AI researcher had a computer that good, they'd >probably think they were very close to the holy grail. But here we >do have such computers, [monkeys] and we don't put them to much use >besides studying their brains.

It's difficult and expensive to program a monkey to perform a task, and when
you're finished all you have is one trained monkey. It might be just as
difficult to train a primitive AI to do the task, but when you're finished
you have millions of trained AIs.